BorderWare Adds New SPAM Control to MXtreme Mail Firewall; MXtreme Lets Your Company Control SPAM.Business Editors TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 11, 2002 BorderWare Technologies Inc. announced today a new weapon in the war against SPAM and unwanted email. This is the latest innovation to the MXtreme Mail Firewall range of appliances. MXtreme's new SPAM control gets smarter as you use it. The system uses adaptive local learning techniques. MXtreme combines traditional SPAM controls with a new technology based on an advanced lexical analysis (programming) lexical analysis - (Or "linear analysis", "scanning") The first stage of processing a language. The stream of characters making up the source program or other input is read one at a time and grouped into lexemes (or "tokens") - word-like pieces such as keywords, algorithm. MXtreme is flexible and self-learning. It automatically adjusts SPAM detection rules according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. local language. Each company can set their own controls for SPAM tolerance without interfering with legitimate email traffic. "The dramatic increase in spam has made it imperative for businesses to take action. Not only is it important to filter out unwanted spam, it is imperative to address e-mail security at the boundary of the network," said Joyce Graff, VP and Research Director at Gartner, a Stanford, CT-based industry analyst firm. "Just as you need network security, you also need e-mail security, watching for Denial of Service attacks and Directory Harvest Attacks, and keeping trash out of your real e-mail." BorderWare's MXtreme mail firewall offers the protection organizations need. "SPAM is out of control today", says John Alsop John Alsop (1724 – November 22, 1794) was an American merchant and politician from New York City during the American Revolution. He was a delegate for New York to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776. , President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of BorderWare Technologies Inc. "Until now, companies have had to rely on labor-intensive manual filters. MXtreme changes the equation with adaptive, self-learning technology. We offer the best SPAM protection available." About BorderWare Technologies Inc. BorderWare Technologies Inc., the first firewall vendor to obtain the Common Criteria (Common Criteria for Information Technology Security) An international standard process for defining security objectives and for evaluating compliance with those objectives. The Common Criteria have largely replaced the Trusted Computer Security Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC), the Canadian EAL EAL English as an Additional Language EAL Evaluation Assurance Level EAL Eastern Airlines EAL Emergency Action Level EAL Environmental Analysis Laboratory EAL Evidence Analysis Library (American Dietetic Association) 4+ Certification, is a private company headquartered in Toronto, Canada with offices in London; Frankfurt; Stockholm and San Jose. BorderWare develops and supplies easy-to-use, highly secure Internet Gateway products and services based on its unique, field-proven S-CORE technology. BorderWare's range of solutions includes VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. client-server solutions, the Document Gateway(TM) and the MXtreme (TM) mail firewall. For more information or to arrange media interviews contact: Robert Wilson Bill Simpson (BorderWare) 819-685-9871/416-729-5256 1-877-814-7900 x239/416-606-9087 bob@robertwilsonandassociates.com bsimpson@borderware.com |
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